19 February 2012

The Royal Palace, Oslo, Norway, February 2012

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(3) Statue of King Karl III (XIV) Johan of Sweden and Norway.

The photos were taken in the morning of Sunday 5 February 2012 when I was on my way to the House of Literature for the Reagan Conference. In the last few days we have had milder temperatures, so some of the snow is probably gone by now (I can't see the Palace from my office window in Haakon VIIs gate (!)). I guess it is on time to post the photos before it is too late. We could of course get more snow this winter, but March is not that far away.

As you can see renovation work is being done on the roof of the Royal Palace. The work will be finished in "ultimo 2012".Updated on Tuesday 21 February 2012 at 13.30 (one half-finished sentence deleted).

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This blog is written by Dag T. Hoelseth, a Norwegian historian specialising in royal history.
I have a Cand.philol. degree in history from the University of Oslo and graduated in 1997 with the dissertation Det nasjonale kongedømme. Det norske monarkiet 1905-1910, which dealt with the royal election in Norway 1905 and how the new dynasty "became Norwegian".
I am the author of Historisk utredning om Kongehuset, dets apanasjer og disponible statseiendommer, which was published on behalf of the Palace Committee in 2001. The report focused among others on the history of the Norwegian civil list from 1905 to the 1970s as well as the properties the king of Norway has to his disposal.
I have made contributions to several antologies and also written articles for various publications. More often I have operated "behind the scene", consulting newspapers etc. with background information.
Among my other interests are genealogy, Norwegian-American emigration history, US presidential history, traveling, football and ice hockey.